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Category: COVID

A scientist stares into a beaker of water. He's wearing a lab coat with a pink shirt underneath. He has blue eyes and greying hair.
Posted inCOVID, Research, Science

Halifax researchers using new skills, tools to monitor water systems for pathogens

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 26, 2023May 3, 2023
A Delta plane taxis on the tarmac, while a smaller plane takes off in the background.
Posted inMorning File

Air travel and air quality: lessons on masks, filtration, and ventilation

A smiling man with fair skin tone, a dark short beard, and dark framed glasses, wearing a green shirt. by Philip Moscovitch April 25, 2023April 25, 2023
A senior woman wearing a bright striped top, scarf and olive coloured jacket stands smiling broadly in front of a window beside a younger woman. The grinning younger woman is holding a phone in front of them, taking a selfie.
Posted inCOVID, Medical Research

Dalhousie researcher: pandemic’s effects on mental health in long-term care ‘very mixed’

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont April 18, 2023April 25, 2023
Posted inCOVID

On average, 38 Nova Scotians are dying from COVID each month, five times the number of flu deaths

by Tim Bousquet April 17, 2023April 17, 2023
A close-up photo illustration of what the coronavirus looks like. This one is rendered in red with green, blue, and pink crowns, on a black background.
Posted inCOVID

12 more COVID deaths announced in Nova Scotia

by Tim Bousquet April 6, 2023April 6, 2023
A rectangular, modern house sits on a snowy hilltop.
Posted inMorning File

‘This asshole bought 10 acres on P.E.I. to be alone, and then told a national magazine about it,’ and other ways to profit from rage-inducing journalism

A smiling fair skinned woman with short silver hair wearing dark rimmed glasses and a bright blue blazer. by Tim Bousquet and Jennifer Henderson March 17, 2023March 17, 2023
A large white boat in the water.
Posted inMorning File

Billionaire John Risley won’t pay his credit card bill, says American Express

by Tim Bousquet March 3, 2023March 3, 2023
Three red and white smoke stacks against a blue sky, with crisscrossing power wires, a fence, and colourful leaves in the foreground.
Posted inMorning File

During the early February cold snap, the peak power demand was nearly 10% higher than the previous record

by Tim Bousquet February 27, 2023November 9, 2023
The utterly empty Halifax airport in March, 2020.
Posted inCOVID, Medical Research

Canadian researchers increase wastewater testing at airports to detect new COVID variants

A smiling white woman with wavy dark blonde hair and bangs, wearing a green top and a sweater with burgundy and white flecks. Behind her you can see dark trees. by Yvette d'Entremont February 16, 2023February 23, 2023
Two men sitting at a table.
Posted inMorning File

Premier Tim Houston and Chief Medical Officer of Health Dr. Robert Strang are silent as 27 more people die from COVID

by Tim Bousquet February 10, 2023November 9, 2023

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PRICED OUT is the Examiner’s investigative reporting project focused on the housing crisis.

You can learn about the project, including how we’re asking readers to direct our reporting, our published articles, and what we’re working on, on the PRICED OUT homepage.


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DEFORESTATION INC

Reporter Joan Baxter is one of 140 journalists from 39 media outlets across 27 countries working collaboratively on ‘Deforestation Inc,’ a project of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), which looked at the ownership structure of Paper Excellence, its relationship with Asia Pulp & Paper, and how the secretive corporate empires are devastating forests in Canada and around the world.

Find all of Baxter’s articles on the Deforestation Inc homepage.


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2020 MASS MURDERS

All of the Halifax Examiner’s reporting on the mass murders of April 18/19, 2020, and recent articles on the Mass Casualty Commission and newly-released documents.

Updated regularly.


UNCOVER: DEAD WRONG

In 1995, Brenda Way was brutally murdered behind a Dartmouth apartment building. In 1999, Glen Assoun was found guilty of the murder, and served 17 years in prison while maintaining his innocence. In 2019, he was fully exonerated.

Halifax Examiner’s Tim Bousquet tells Assoun’s story on the CBC podcast series Uncover: Dead Wrong. Click here to listen to the podcast.

Read the entire series, plus articles about Glen Assoun's wrongful conviction, on the DEAD WRONG homepage.

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